Cedric J. Robinson (1940–2016)

Author of Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

About the Author

Cedric Robinson was Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). His books include Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (1983); Black Movements in America (1997); Terms of Order (1980); Forgeries of Memory and Meaning (2012) and An Anthropology of Marxism show more (2019). show less

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Works by Cedric J. Robinson

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Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (1983) 539 copies, 1 review

Cedric J. Robinson on Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance (2019) 66 copies

Black Movements in America (1997) 59 copies

An Anthropology of Marxism (2001) 46 copies

The Terms of Order: Political Science and the Myth of Leadership (1980) 41 copies

Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II (2007) 25 copies

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Futures of Black Radicalism (2017) — Contributor — 124 copies, 1 review

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Legal name: Robinson, Cedric James
Birthdate: 1940-11-05
Date of death: 2016-06-05
Gender: male
Education: University of California, Berkeley (BA|Social Anthropology)
Stanford University (PhD|Political Theory)
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Oakland, California, USA
Map Location: USA

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Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson

This is a book I think I would rate higher if I was smarter/had read more of the source material. Robinson is relentlessly thorough, and this is a book I'm going to have to go back through again and again probably to get a real sense of. Nonetheless, I found especially the latter chapters about DuBois, James, and Wright really interesting, and it's made me want to go back and read and reread the works of Wright in particular through a new lens. I'm going to be working through what James show more means by the Black Radical Tradition for a while, I think because it's deliberately nebulous in a lot of ways, but it was definitely compelling and worth reading! show less

Jun 25, 2019